1717 Academy Sciences Astronomy Satellites Chemistry Bladder Diseases PROVENANCE

1717 Academy Sciences Astronomy Satellites Chemistry Bladder Diseases PROVENANCE

‘History of the Royal Academy of Sciences’ is an 18^th-century collection of essays on various scientific and philosophical topics. Also known as the French Academy of Sciences, this society was established to encourage scientific research and develop the interest in the sciences in France.

This volume contains essays on physics, anatomy, chemistry, astronomy, and mechanics, with notable articles on:

• Changes in acids and alkalis
• Prolapsed and herniated bladder treatments
• General observations of satellites
• Notes on the distances from the earth to stars
• Principles and behaviors of fluids

Item number: #18607

Price: $599

MAIRAN, Jean-Jacques Dortous

Histoire de l’Académie royale des sciences, Année M. DCCXVII

A Paris: de l’imprimerie Royale, 1719.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • [8], 92; 304
  • 14 plates
• Provenance: Armorial Bookplate – Bauffremont-Courtenay
  • Coat of arms of the Bauffremont-Courtenay family of France. While the bookplate does not indicate which family member owned this book in particular, it possibly belonged to Alexandre Emmanuel Louis de Bauffremont – Courtenay (1773–1833), who served under the Bourbons. His father Louis was made a Prince of the Holy Roman Empire in 1757, a title which was inheritable by all male-line descendants. He fled France during the French Revolution and settled in the United States. He later returned to France and was made a Count of the French Empire by Napoleon. Louis XVIII made him a peer of France in 1817, and duke in 1818. Motto: DIEU AYDE AU PREMIER CHRESTIEN PLUS DE DEUIL QUE DE JOYE
• Language: French
• Binding: Leather; tight and secure
• Size: ~10in X 7.75in (25.5cm x 19.5cm)

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